Build your letterpress skills: learn advanced justification, typesetting, and composition. Put it all together to print a broadside of your own design.

This workshop is for artists and/or writers who want to expand their visual and literary practices by exploring text in the book format.

This class will present a brief history of Surrealism and discuss the principles and techniques of the Surrealist methods as a “way of working” that can “crossover” and be applied to your own arts projects.

Our Bookbinding Core Certificate Program introduces students to four different binding models, leading them through the history and evolution of bookmaking.

Build your letterpress skills: learn advanced justification, typesetting, and composition. Put it all together to print a broadside of your own design.

If you’ve ever been curious about how to make a book, Introduction to Bookbinding is the place to start. One workshop, five booklets!

In centuries past, books were sometimes sewn onto cords and then laced into soft covers before being bound. In this class students will bind a book employing thick paper as a folded and laced wrapper.

Step up your mixed media techniques with this introductory course to image transfers.

Create sophisticated little pamphlets with interesting stitches based on the work of Keith Smith. Two stitching patterns will be taught with a single and a double-section pamphlet.

Learn to make multi-part stencils for illustration and design.

Hand lettering for all, even those with the shakiest of handwriting! Ease into the art of calligraphy with this beginning class in penmanship, letter formation, layout techniques, and calligraphic processes and materials.

The final class in our Core Bookbinding series uses skills learned in each previous class to create a beautiful and classic rounded back cloth binding.

This class introduces Monotype, the only printmaking technique where the end result is a single unique print. Students will experiment and explore this technique while printing on a Vandercook press.

This hybrid online/in person workshop will teach experienced letterpress printers to prepare digital files and print 4-color process images with tight registration.

This class introduces the process, the materials, the machines, and the satisfaction of printing by hand on a Cylinder proof press.

Straight out of a 1970s Italian phone booth, this 360-degree flexible binding offers many advantages because it bends and does not break.

Scandinavian Elegance! Discover the beauty of the Danish Millimeter Binding, and spend five days exploring this classic style and its variations. This class is highly recommended as an introduction to bookbinding with leather.

Use a blender to process recycled pulp and make your own sheets of paper!

Captivate readers with this dynamic structure. A seemingly simple codex – which is actually two accordions attached together – opens delightfully to reveal three hidden rooms when the center page is pulled open.

The Glazier Codex is one of the most unusual and fascinating of the ancient book structures. With its bone clasps, leather thongs, leather bands over wooden boards and a pattern of shapes which could relate to a dragon, this book is an exciting addition to your historical repertoire.

This is Michael and Dominic’s most popular class, excellent for beginning bookbinders.

Alchemy is more than just turning lead into gold. Trace the history of the process, learn about its applications and identify ways that you can use alchemical influences in your own art.

The four class Cylinder Core Certificate Program allows students to quickly learn letterpress basics and become certified to rent studio time.

Explore the joys of making your own historical decorated papers, then experiment with contemporary designs and inventive techniques.

This intensive class is for those with some leather experience who would like to learn the fundamentals of this area of book restoration. Whether it’s an eighteenth century calfskin binding, or a massive Victorian Family Bible, this class will teach you how to restore them beautifully.

Now that you've completed the Cylinder Core series, you can become certified on the Jobbing Platen, a true workhorse of the letterpress printing world. Learn the ins-and-outs of this press that's great for large editions.

Learn another use for the accordion fold: create an in-depth scene using postcards and photographs to make a lovely, layered, 3-dimensional book.

If you’ve ever been curious about how to make a book, Introduction to Bookbinding is the place to start. One workshop, five booklets!

Explore the possibilities of making prints from flowers, plants, and other materials found in nature in this two-day workshop.

You’ve made your memories, now make a book where you can house them. This screw-post album is a fun and flexible book structure ideal for photographs and scrapbooking. No previous experience necessary!